On or around November 10, 2003, the cvs.slashcode.com machine was
compromised by an unauthorized attacker. This raises obvious
questions about the integrity of the Slash codebase as provided by
cvs from that machine; here are the answers.

As many of you have noticed, in early
January, that machine was taken offline. Since that time, the Slash
programmers have thoroughly audited the entire codebase. We conclude
that no unauthorized changes were made -- neither to the
publicly-available code as served from that machine, nor to the
private code which is used internally on OSDN websites.

Nevertheless, we advise the maintainers of Slash sites which were
using post-2.2.6 code from CVS to take several steps to ensure the
integrity of their code. Also, to continue accessing new CVS code,
it will be necessary to switch to the code's new CVS server at
SourceForge.net; please click Read More for more information.

I am considering using Slash as a forum for students to discuss lecture notes before the actual lecture presentation. In this way, they would understand more of the lecture when it is presented and I would receive early feedback from the forum to improve the lecture before it is presented and the notes before they are finalized.

The class has about 200 students. Would the Slash moderation mechanism work well for this purpose?

In particular, students would be expected to moderate postings of their peers. Moreover, I would need access to the moderation logs since students can get marks for moderating.

An anonymous reader asks: "By default there is a limit on how long a poster's subject can be. Is there a way to get beyond this limitation, so that the subject lines for comments and stories can be longer?" Sure, it's easy... this is a good introduction to using MySQL to customize Slash.